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Community Care Network: Health Coach Program
No full textThe Community Care Network is a unique program at The College of Wooster in which students interested in pursuing medical school are paired with patients in the local community through a partnership with Wooster Community Hospital. This initiative helps to develop practical approaches for improving the health of patients by reducing the frequency of re-hospitalization through preventative measures. The students begin with a one-semester training seminar followed by an internship in which the student, under the supervision of hospital staff, provides weekly visits to patients in their homes, checking on their physical and emotional well-being, and discussing lifestyle choices that impact their health. In the academic year 2012-2013, the Community Care Network was launched. A total of 25 students are selected every semester to complete a one-semester seminar taught by health care professionals from WCH on a weekly basis. For 14 weeks, students learn about diseases, illnesses, specialty areas such as pulmonary and cardiology, and about the health care system. During this time, they also learn how to take blood pressure and other vital signs as well as develop an understanding of frequently prescribed medications for diseases like diabetes and congestive heart failure. Upon successful completion, student health coaches are trained by home health care nurses who pair them with patients accepted in the program. Students then meet weekly with their assigned patient and develop a relationship with the focus of guiding the patient to meet their health care plan goals. From the beginning, this program has been mutually beneficial to both the college and hospital. Now in its fourth year, more than 250 students have successfully completed the seminar and have become active health coaches. Each health coach meets with a team of health care professionals on a weekly basis to discuss his or her patient, a requirement of the program. They are considered an equal member of the health care team. The outcomes for students and patients alike have been astounding. The Community Care Network key players, Robyn Laditka, pre-health advisor at The College of Wooster, and AlexSandra Davis, RN director of the Community Care Network at WCH, report several sets of outcomes since the inception of the Community Care Network. Students gain valuable direct service experiences now required to enter most health care professions, but that is only the starting point. They gain insight that doctors can't possibly know about by going into the patients' homes. They learn about the issues of poverty, hoarding, and multiple prescriptions to keep track of on a daily basis. They learn to build relationships to gain the trust of the patients. The hospital experiences fewer hospitalizations and unnecessary visits to the emergency room.AUTHOR AFFILIATION: Robyn Laditka, Pre-Health Advisor, the College of Wooster, [email protected] (Corresponding Author); Alexsandra Davis, RN Director, Community Health Network, Wooster Community Hospital.The Community Care Network is an unique program at The College of Wooster in which students interested in pursuing medical school are paired with patients in the local community through a partnership with Wooster Community Hospital. This initiative helps develop practical approaches to improve the health of patients by reducing the frequency of re-hospitalization through preventative measures. The students begin with a one-semester training seminar followed by an internship in which the student, under the supervision of hospital staff, provides weekly visits to patients in their homes, checking on their physical and emotional well-being and discussing lifestyle choices that impact their health
Richard Dawkins in conversation with Robyn Williams
No full textDawkins and Williams discuss the intricacies, the fascinating patterns and the anomalies produced by the process of evolution on earth.
At the Melbourne Town Hall, presented by the Melbourne Writers Festival, outspoken and influential author and scientist Richard Dawkins speaks to Robyn Williams (ABC RN) about the ideas underpinning his new book, The Greatest Show on Earth. They discuss the intricacies, the fascinating patterns and the anomalies produced by the process of evolution on earth. Dawkins then takes further questions from the audience about the theory of evolution, genetic determinism, the climate change denial movement and the place of religion in the world of science. Melbourne, March 2010.
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Farm to Fork Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment for Norovirus on Frozen Strawberries
No full textFoodborne illness outbreaks have been increasingly linked to the consumption of fresh and frozen berries that were contaminated with pathogenic viruses, such as human norovirus (NoV). Contamination of berries is assumed to take place at harvest by the use of contaminated water for pesticide dilution, irrigation water source or by shedding berry pickers in the field. A quantitative microbial risk assessment simulation model was built to replicate the largest known NoV outbreak which sickened about 11,000 people over a 3-week period. The outbreak occurred in Germany in 2012 when contaminated frozen strawberries were served at nearly 400 schools and daycare centers. The risk model explicitly assumed that all contamination would arise from NoV contamination of surface water used for pesticide dilution. Input data was collected from the published literature, observational studies and assumptions. The model starts with contamination of the berries in the field, and proceeds through transportation to processing facility, washing, sanitizing, freezing, frozen transport to cargo ship, transport view of cargo ship, transport to distribution center, frozen storage at the distribution center, transport to the catering facility, food service preparation and consumption, dose response, and predicted illnesses. A total of 21 scenarios were chosen to evaluate the impact of model parameters on the number of illness associated with NoV contamination of berries. Scenarios evaluated include the initial level of NoV in surface water, the effect of seasonality on the prevalence of NoV in surface water, the strength of the pesticide used, the volume of water used to dilute the pesticide, temperature during transportation to processing facility, washing and sanitizing conditions at processing facility and preparation (heat-treatment) of berries prior to consumption. Scenarios were compared via the Factor Sensitivity technique where the logarithm of the ratio of mean illnesses was used to compare different assumptions. The input that had the greatest effect on increasing in the number of illnesses was a high NoV concentration in the water (8 log Genome Copies/L) when compared to the baseline scenario with resulting mean illnesses of 7,964 illnesses and ~2 illnesses, respectively. This assumption about the concentration of virus in the pesticide makeup water was the only variable capable of producing an outbreak similar to that observed in Germany in 2012. Heat-treatment of the berries, use of a pesticide with strong antiviral effect, and assumption about the virus concentration in the pesticide make-up water had the largest impact on decreasing illnesses.Peer reviewe
"Exploring Our Sexualities" - Noted Author and Activist Robyn Ochs to Present Workshop and Interactive Presentation at U of M Crookston on Wednesday, April 22, 2009
No full textTollefson, Elizabeth. (2009). "Exploring Our Sexualities" - Noted Author and Activist Robyn Ochs to Present Workshop and Interactive Presentation at U of M Crookston on Wednesday, April 22, 2009. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/222053
A case study of the design, implementation, and formative evaluation of a team development program for a women's swimming and diving team in a NCAA division I university setting
No full textThis dissertation reflects a case study of the process of the design, implementation and formative evaluation of a team development program conducted with a swimming and diving team consisting of twenty-three women at a NCAA Division I university during the 2008-2009 academic year. The dissertation was undertaken to contribute to the knowledge base about how team development programs can be designed and implemented in athletic settings. As a foundation for the dissertation, the participant observer role was used in conjunction with Maher's (2000) Program Planning and Evaluation (PP&E) Framework and Maher's (2004) Student-Athlete Pyramid of Development. Relying on these approaches as procedural and technical guidance, a framework of knowledge, skills and abilities was formulated and then put into an evaluable programmatic form to assist the student-athletes on the team with interpersonal communication, within the team context. This dissertation explores how the PP&E Framework can be coupled with some of the levels of the Student-Athlete Pyramid of Development along with knowledge about team development from business, military, and sport to assist an athletic team in learning to communicate constructively. Formative evaluation data is provided from participating team members and the coaching staff about the actual and potential value of this kind of program. Finally, conclusions and recommendations are offered for the possible design and implementation of similar team development programs in athletic, business, and other contexts.Psy.DIncludes bibliographical references (p. 119-126)by Robyn L. OdegaardIncludes abstrac
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Woman as Object
No full textThis paper discusses the creation process of thirteen works by the author addressing women's issues using mannequins of actual women as a metaphor. Robyn Beirman Jamison discusses interviewing and photographing the women, creating the works, and the imagery of objectification of women by society
Musical score, "Haste Love," for voice and piano. Words by Minnie Gilmore, music by Alfred G. Robyn. Balmer and Weber Music House Company, c. 1892
No full textPatrick Gilmore's daughter, Minnie L. Gilmore, was an author in her own right. Her published works include "Songs from the Wings," "Pipes from the Prairieland," "A Son of Esau," and "The Woman Who Stood Between." One of her verses, from "Songs from the Wings," is entitled "To my father--Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore": "Though he is dead, I still may do/ Him honor, by a life akin/ To that pure life my childhood knew,/ His fatherheart within./ And for the true musician's place,/ You claimed a throne beside the priest;/ Since both, you said, redeemed the base,/ And blessed both great and least." In this song, her verse was set to music by Alfred George Robyn (1860-1935) a composer of light opera and founder of the Marion English Opera Company in New York. Balmer and Weber Music House Company, [c.] 1892
Combining Scholarship, Teaching, and Learning: A Qualitative Study
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Date Presented 3/31/2017
This session will reveal results of student participation in the Centralized Service Learning Model (CSLM), a course design framework that facilitates creative and active learning opportunities in the community through service. Results support the effectiveness of the CSLM as a viable teaching model to influence student learning.
Primary Author and Speaker: Lauren Milton
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The Influence of Argumentativeness, Verbal Aggressiveness, and Affective Orientation on Roommate Communication Satisfaction and Roommate Affinity
No full textPromoting reasoning, problem-solving and argumentation during small group discussions
No full textCooperative learning is widely accepted as a pedagogical practice that can be employed in classrooms to promote students engagement and learning. When children cooperate, they learn to attend to what others have to say, provide and receive assistance, affirm and disconfirm conceptions, and, in so doing, they develop mutual understandings of the topic at hand. From a Vygotskian perspective, the group context enables members to engage in dialogic exchanges and think about issues in ways they may have never previously considered. In so doing, information and ideas are exchanged, transformed and appropriated so they become new ways of thinking or knowledge building. Moreover, when children engage in reciprocal interactions with each other, they learn to use language differently to explain experiences and realities and, in so doing, they find new functions for language in expressing their thoughts and feelings. In fact, talk is so important that it now recognised as more than a means of sharing thoughts; it is also a social mode of thinking and a tool for the joint construction of knowledge and new learning. However, although it is well acknowledged that students benefit from interacting with others, it is only recently that research has begun to examine the role that teachers play in promoting student dialogue in the classroom. This is a concern because there is no doubt that teachers play a key role in inducting children into ways of thinking and learning by making explicit how to express ideas, seek help, contest opposing positions, and reason cogently. In short, teachers play a key role in helping students to acquire the linguistic tools needed to promote thinking, problem-solving, and reasoning. This chapter reports on two studies undertaken by the author that illustrate how teachers' discourse affects students' discourse, problem-solving and reasoning (Study 1) and how teachers can challenge students' cognitive and metacognitive thinking to promote reasoned argumentation and learning (Study 2). The studies highlight the importance of systematically constructing experiences in classrooms to teach these skills to students
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